Established in 2002, Zhejiang Kende Welding Equipment Co., Ltd. has 860 employees, including 5 middle and senior engineers, more than 10 R&D personnel, 20 middle and senior managers and 20 foreign trade sales personnel. The company covers an area of 12,800 square meters and has 120 sets of advanced automatic and semi-automatic numerical control equipment and testing instruments at home and abroad, with an annual production capacity of 1 million welding equipment. Now, the company has developed into the largest professional welding and cutting equipment manufacturer in China, and is also a Sino-foreign joint venture integrating product development, manufacturing and sales in China welding machine industry.
The main products of Zhejiang Kende Welding Equipment Co., Ltd. are nine series products, such as household small electric welding machine (MMA), INVERTER arc welding machine (inverter), argon arc welding machine (TIG), PLASMA cutting machine (plasma), CO2 gas shielded welding machine (MIG/MAG), SPOT welding machine (spot), BATTERY CHARGER, heat energy equipment (HEATER) and construction machinery. Some of these new products were evaluated as high-tech products by the Ministry of Science and Technology by independent innovation. Products enjoy a certain popularity and reputation in the international market.
Zhejiang Kende Welding Equipment Co., Ltd. has a perfect quality management system and strictly implements the product quality and safety laws of the selling countries. The company passed the ISO9001 quality management system certification in 2001. The products are the first to pass the safety certification of German GS, American cETLus, Russian GOST and Australian SAA in China. The company is the first enterprise in China that has passed the CE certification of the European Union. The standardization laboratory under construction will strictly implement ISO international standards and will become the only international standardization laboratory recognized by TUV certification company in Germany and ETL certification company in the United States in the domestic welding machine industry.
Zhejiang Kende Welding Equipment Co., Ltd. has a perfect product sales and service network, and all products are sold to the international market. Mainly Germany, Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, the United States, Chile, Russia, Hungary, Israel, Egypt, Australia and other developed countries in Europe and America and Southeast Asian countries and regions such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong Kong. The company has established stable business relations with international multinational groups such as MGB, EINHELL, FERM and KINZON. The trademark "KENDE" has gained a certain popularity in the international welding equipment market and has been recognized by importers and consumers in the selling countries. In 2005, "KENDE" trademark was appraised as a famous trademark in Taizhou. In 2006, the trademark "KENDE" applied for legal registration in more than 100 countries.
The company’s business development goals in the recent 10 years: in 2004, the total output value will be 185 million, the foreign exchange earned by export will be 20 million dollars, and the profit and tax will be 16 million yuan. In 2005, the total output value will be 250 million dollars, the foreign exchange earned by export will be 31 million dollars, and the profit and tax will be 20 million yuan. It is estimated that in 2006, the total output value will be 400 million yuan, the foreign exchange earned by export will be 50 million dollars, and the profit will be 30 million yuan. In 2008, it is estimated that the total output value will reach 1 billion yuan, and the export will earn 120 million US dollars. In 2015, the output value reached 2 billion yuan, and the export earned 250 million US dollars.
For this development goal, Kende people are working hard to forge ahead.